If you are searching for a 320 gb internal hard drive, then you may want to take a look at the Western Digital Caviar SE Hard Drive. This drive leads the race where peak desktop drives are concerned. The 320GB of the drive operates 7200 RPM, andthe drive is an excellent choice if you are looking for business or home high-performance computing, because it is equipped with a revolutionary 8 MB of cache. It provides latency of just 4.2 ms on the average, and an average of 8.9 ms seek time. The drive also adequately manages multimedia applications that are high-end, and also data intensive applications.

Additionally, the drive will give a much secure data transfer with greater efficiency as a result of a 10.9ms on the eaverage.

A few data protection features included in the drive, is called WD's Data Lifeguard. These features are for environment protection, shock protection, repair and error detection that is real-time embedded. What this does for the consumer is ensure that isolation and automatic discovery and repair will happen if problems should occur in the hard drive.

Western also supplies another ,desktop 20GB internal drive called WD Caviar Blue, which is also equipped with the Lifeguard Tools to allow trouble free installation, and also certain diagnostic and management capabilities. This version contains a serial ATA interface, 16MB cache buffer, transfer rates of data to 300MB/sec, 8.9 ms, on average, seek time, FlexPower technology in its SecureConnect that gives as much as 5 times stronger cable and drive connection, as compared to the original SATA cables and hard drives, and it allows backward compatibility with SATA backplanes and cables.

The installation kit comes with a complete installation guide and mounting hardware.

For the laptop, a 320Gb drive can be purchased also from Western Digital and an example model number is WD3200BEVT. This internal drive will allow you a great deal of room for your music, videos, and digital photos. It sports WhisperDrive very quiet operation and also the ShockGuard technology.

This drive also has a serial ATA interface, 8MB cache buffer, 5400rpm, an average 12 ms seek time, it is compatible for both the Mac and the PC, and the data transfer rates are as fast as 3Gbps.